Welcome to the web pages for ERSC 2P16 Introduction to Clastic
Sedimentology which is
offered at Brock University. Material here is intended for students in
the course or APGO applicants who are preparing for the "Sedimentation Technical Exam" (and have made arrangements with APGO to do so) but if you are surfing please help yourself.
The course notes are available in PDF format on the Course Notes Web Page
Click here to obtain two examples of past final exams for this course.
Chapter
1
Introduction to clastic sedimentology
Chapter 2
Grain size and grain size
distributions, grain shape, porosity, permeability and fabric
Chapter 3
The classification of terigenous
clastic rocks.
Chapter 4
Fluid flow
and sediment transport under unidirectional flows.
Chapter 5.
Bed form under
unidirectional flows; Bed forms stratification under unidirectional flows.
Chapter 6
Bed forms and stratification
under oscillatory and combined flows (abbreviated version).
You can print the powerpoint slides out as handouts by downloading the file (right-click on the above link), loading the file into Powerpoint on your computer and following the instructions outlined here
For those of you with interest, here's the Greek Alphabet
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